About Us

 Rural Uplift Centre, (RUC) is working in Tamil Nadu for enabling the poor women beedi workers, Agricultural labourers, Dalits, person with disability, small & marginal farmers, fish workers and victims of disasters to assert their rights to life and rights to livelihood means . Till recent times the above excluded groups have not been motivated and facilitated systematically to come to the fore front in the mainstream development scenario. But RUC made these process a reality among the excluded groups.

 RUC was the initiative of the then members (Fr.Claud De Souza.s.j, Fr.L.A.Tagore.s.j, Fr.Pappuraj.s.j. Mr. A.Maria James etc ) of All India Catholic University Federation (AICUF).. Mr. A. Maria James the Secretary of RUC is an ex-Regional secretary of AICUF. The association was formed in the year 1981.